December 11th.Youtube Local time announced Tuesday that itsAutomatic DubbingThe feature has begun rolling out to more channels, allowing creators to generate translated audio for their videos in multiple languages. Previously, this feature was limited to a small number of creators for testing.
Last year, YouTube debuted this at the Vidcon conference AI-driven automated voiceover toolsthat aims to help users around the world more easily understand content on the platform. According to the report, officials have rolled out the auto-dubbing feature to hundreds of thousands of YouTube partner programKnowledge and information channels, and will expand to more content types in the future.
Creators simply upload their videos as usual and YouTube willAutomatic language recognition and generation of multilingual dubbed versions. Currently, the tool supportsEnglish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
YouTube's auto-dubbing feature usesGoogle's Gemini technology simulates human speech. The company cautions, however, that the technology is stillinitial stage, may not be perfect, and some translation or dubbing effects may be problematic.
YouTube also alerted creators that another feature called "expressive voice" is coming soon, aimed atBetter simulate the creator's tone of voice, emotions, and even the ambience of the surroundings. YouTube has announced that it will continue to work with Google DeepMind and the Google Translate team to introduce cutting-edge technology to make voiceovers more accurate, vivid and natural, 1AI understands.